Lowkey a fangirl (both in Spanish and English)

These people usually AI-generate new chapters for awaiting fanfictions, their impatience causes authors get their work stolen and fed to AI which actively harms people and their creative writing

Here is a post on Twitter on how to protect your fanfiction on AO3, to prevent someone from feeding it to ChatGPT

IF you are someone who does this and say that you "appreciate the story and a huge fan of a certain author's work" know that the author and the whole writing community hates you, congratulations! Because of your actions, not only have you harmed the environment but also harmed an author's writing. Stop.using.ai.

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

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I am Hamza from Gaza, a husband and father of four children. Before the war, I worked and provided for my family, and we lived a simple but stable life. Since the war began, everything has changed. We were displaced many times, and our home was eventually completely destroyed, leaving us without shelter or stability.

During this period, I was seriously injured in my hand while trying to obtain food for my children, which left me unable to work and in need of surgery I cannot afford. My young daughter Amira was also injured and urgently needs medical treatment. We have lost relatives, our home, and all our belongings, and we are now living in a tent under very harsh conditions. My youngest daughter, Aya, was born during the war and needs basic supplies and care.

I created this campaign to seek support for my family — to help cover urgent medical treatment, food, and essential needs for my children. Any support, no matter how small, can make a real difference and give my family hope for a safer, more dignified life. 🤍

So please help me and my daughter 🙏

Every day, I watch my younger siblings grow weaker from hunger and exhaustion. Even our dog, who has always been part of our family, has lost so much weight because I can no longer provide food for him either. The hardest moments are at night when my siblings ask me when life will become normal again, and I have no answer except patience and prayer.

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@sarcasticsweetlara My name is Ramy, I am 22 years old from Gaza. I am living through very hard and painful days, and my father hurts me every day because I cannot provide money or food for my family 💔

Before the war, we lived a simple, peaceful life in Gaza. My wife and I were raising our six children—four boys, one girl, and our baby daughter who had not yet turned one. Our home was small, but it was full of laughter, warmth, and love. 🏡❤️

Then, in a single moment, everything was gone.

Airstrikes destroyed our home. The walls that once protected my children turned into rubble. I still remember the sound… the fear in their eyes… the way they held onto me as we ran for our lives. I couldn’t take anything with me—only my family. 😢💥

Now, we live in a fragile tent in a refugee camp. ⛺

The cold does not wait. The wind enters from every side. At night, my children cannot sleep—not because of noise, but because of hunger. My baby daughter cries in my arms, and I have nothing to give her. No milk. No warmth. Only empty hands and a broken heart. 🥶👶💔

As a father, this is the deepest pain—to see your children suffer and feel helpless.

Every day is a battle. I search for food. I try to keep our tent standing. I try to protect my children from sickness, fear, and despair. I am doing everything I can… but it is not enough. 😔

I need your help.

I want to be honest with you: during my last fundraising campaign, I was scammed. At a time when we had nothing, we lost even more. It broke me—but I refused to give up on my children. ⚠️💔

Now, I have created a new campaign with the help of a trusted friend, so your support can safely reach my family. I am asking you from my heart—please give us another chance. 🤝

Your help can save my children. 🙏

Even a small donation can mean: 🍞 Food for my hungry children

🍼 Milk for my baby daughter

💊 Medicine when we are sick

🧣 Blankets to survive the cold nights

Please, my friends… do not turn away.

If you cannot donate, please share my story. Your share could reach someone who can help save my family. 📢

From a father who is trying not to lose everything

Thank you for standing with us. ❤️

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

if you see any of the signs listed above, you are likely still in the window of "i should reign this in", and it is very likely that if you decide to do so in this moment, you will succeed.

most people in active addiction don't figure it out until they are deep enough into it that the psychological aspect becomes too powerful, especially because they don't know how to recognize these signs. if education were more well-rounded, a lot less people would end up stuck in addiction because you genuinely can take control if you realize you've gone too far early enough.

my basic tenet is, if i start showing signs of addiction, i quit for six months. no matter what it is. six months is enough time to get through the detox, it's enough time to start putting my head into the right space and look at the situation less objectively, and it's enough time to build a new ruleset if i decide to go back to using. this has worked for me multiple times, with several different substances.

however, if you find yourself in a cycle of doing this regularly, you're likely past the point of being able to regain control. nicotine has its grip in me because i let myself slip and stopped stopping when i saw it get unhealthy.

But now we are facing another painful battle. My sister is currently lying in the ICU, surrounded by machines and under constant monitoring, fighting every moment to recover. The doctors said she must stay there for at least a week and urgently needs medications and treatment so her body can heal and survive this nightmare. We still need $800, and we are terrified because the donations have almost stopped while her need for medicine grows more urgent every hour. 💔😔

People are scrolling past our cries for help as if our pain is invisible, while we are drowning in fear and helplessness. We are living through devastating days in Gaza where suffering never ends hunger, fear, lack of clean water, lack of medicine, sleepless nights, and the constant feeling that we may lose the people we love at any moment. We are exhausted in every possible way, yet we keep begging because my sister’s life means everything to us.💔

Please, we are asking you with tears in our eyes and pain in our hearts, do not abandon us now. Do not let my sister survive the surgery only to suffer because we cannot afford the medicines she desperately needs. Any donation, even the smallest amount, could help save her recovery, ease her pain, and give our family a reason to keep believing that humanity still exists.🙏💔😔

Current Process : 15,241 / 16,041

Vatted by : @90-ghost

Vatted by : @sar-soor

Vatted by : @fairuzfan

I am exhausted. For 5 days I have been begging and crying for help with no answer while we are in desperate need. We still need $800 urgently , Please don’t keep ignoring us while my sister is suffering like this. Even the smallest donation could help save her and keep her alive 🙏😔💔

Kidney failure and severe potassium deficiency are paralyzing my daughter Farah’s muscles, and cardiac arrest is now dangerously close to taking her life at any moment.🙏🏻🩷

Kidney failure is slowly stealing her breath and destroying her fragile body, while autism creates even more barriers in her movement, daily life, and suffering.

Farah is fighting battles no child should ever face.

Her tiny body is exhausted, her future is hanging by a thread, and we are desperately begging for help before it is too late.

Please do not ignore her pain.

Your donation could help save her life, ease her suffering, and give her a chance to survive💔😭.

It is noticeable that we did not receive donations despite the urgent need. I complain twice as a frightened mother to you, my generous sympathiser.

Every second matters. Every share matters. Every donation matters.

Help Farah now before cardiac arrest steals her away. 💔

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #451 )✅️

I am 21 years old and a student from Gaza 🇵🇸.

I never imagined I would write something like this…

My family and I used to live a simple life, full of dreams 💭 and hope ✨, but today, everything has changed.

We struggle eve...

We used to live a simple, safe life, trying to provide our children with a decent life despite all the hardships.

Our home was our only safe haven, the place that brought us together and protected us from life's harshness.

But the war changed everything… In moments, we lost our entire home, and our lives were transformed into fear, displacement, and daily suffering.

We escaped the bombardment with no clothes, no food, nothing to take with us except our lives and our children.

Even more difficult is that my brother Mahmoud has a mental disability and needs medication and constant care.

Since the beginning of the war, obtaining treatment has become extremely difficult.

Every day I fear his condition will worsen due to the lack of medication and the harsh conditions we are living in.

My children now live without a home and without stability.

They go to sleep in fear, asking me when we will return to our normal lives.

I have no answer but patience and prayer. I'm not asking for the impossible.

All I wish for is to be able to secure treatment for my brother,

food and shelter for my family,

and to restore to my children the sense of security they've lost.

Any help, no matter how small, can make a huge difference in our lives,

and could be the reason for easing the suffering of a family that has lost everything because of the war.

May God reward you, and please remember us in your prayers.

I’m a 38-year-old mother living in northern Gaza with my husband and our 8 children 👩‍👧‍👦. Before the war, we had a peaceful life — full of love, family, and hope 🌸. But everything was taken from us in an instant 💣. Our home was destroyed, and now we are displaced, living in the open without food, shelter, or medicine ❄️🍞💊.

I had a fundraiser to help us survive, but sadly, it stopped working and I can no longer access it 😞. I’ve now launched a *new campaign* in hopes of finding kind people who can support us 🙏. Even though a ceasefire has begun, *nothing has changed* for families like mine — we are still struggling every day just to stay alive 💔.

*Please, if you can donate or share*, it would mean the world to us. Your support could help us find shelter and keep my children safe and warm tonight 🛌💖.

My name is Mahmoud. I live in Gaza with my family, and we are going through a very difficult financial situation. I tried to create a donation link for my family, but I couldn't find someone to help organize and manage the campaign 🥺💔So my friend Ahmed decided to support me by sharing his own family’s donation link, and we agreed to split the donations between our two families.

Right now, we have almost no food, and the cost of living has become unbearable due to the siege, soaring prices, and the closure of all crossings.Everything has doubled in price in an unimaginable way 🥲🥺

We might be forced to flee to southern Gaza after the announcement of a full invasion of Gaza City 💔

The bombing and destruction never stop — not for a single moment. There is no longer any real life in Gaza. We are just struggling to survive, trying to secure the bare minimum: water and food.

Winter is coming, and we have no winter clothing after our home was destroyed and we were displaced multiple times 😭🥲Please, we urgently need financial help to buy food and store some in case the situation worsens.

This is our donation link.

Please remember: donations are shared between two families. So, for the sake of God, help us, my friend. Save our children, my younger siblings, my parents, and even my older siblings — we are all homeless and hungry 🥺🥲💔

Vetted by Gazavetters

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #682 )✅️

Hello my friends, I truly thank you for your great support.

But I urgently need your help.

My wife is pregnant and needs many vitamins.

I have also become in debt to many people because of the difficult economic situation.

I started a small project so I could rely on myself, but it will fail if you don’t help me. There are not enough food supplies available.

I take care of my elderly mother and father.

Please try to help me.

No matter how small your donation is, it will help me provide a decent life for my family.

Here in Gaza, life in all its forms has come to a halt because of the war😔.

living here has become extremely difficult due to the high and rising prices.

It has become hard to provide the basic necessities we need, like food and drink.

The cost of living for one day exceeds $100.

Please help me, even if just a little.

This campaign is vetted!

The original campaign was #325 on this list by @/gazavetters

But the Chuffed campaign is #527 on this list by @/gazavetters

They are also vetted via association, which is in this reblog by @/dlxxv-vetted-donations

Summary: Huda is Ayaa's sister (@/ayoosh-gaza), who has been vetted before This is how Ayaa is vetted

Last Donation on the GFM was 1 Hour Ago as of this reblog

Nothing here feels normal anymore.

Finding food, clean water, medicine, or even a small sense of safety has become a daily struggle.

We are living in very harsh conditions, surrounded by insects, rats, and disease, with no proper way to protect ourselves from any of it.

And while all of this is happening, my father is still fighting his illness every day.

He urgently needs treatment and medication, but providing them has become incredibly difficult for us.

I spend my days trying to keep my family going and trying to reach people for help, because we truly cannot survive this alone anymore.

Please let your humanity stand with us.

Please donate and share. 💔🙏

📌 Fundraiser vetted (#167 by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi), But we created a new GoFundMe page because GoFundMe suspended the beneficiary’s account on the platform, which put us in a very difficult situation.